Online Assessment and the Features in Language Education Context: A Brief Review
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The present study aimed to cover a holistic viewpoint toward assessment and its features. It discussed the problems in this area during the dominance of COVID-19. This study sought to present some notes on the current online assessment strategies used by the institutions. It measured the effects of the implemented techniques on the nature and purposes of assessment. The issue of cheating was also discussed briefly as the most crucial disadvantage of online measurements, which makes a gap between learners' knowledge, performance, and authentic learning capabilities in virtual platforms. Meanwhile, a short survey was distributed among teachers of the Middle East. It was revealed that assessment lost its main features and objectives during the dominance of COVID-19. Moreover, it was noticed that academic integrity is still deficient despite the highest levels of precautionary actions taken by the teachers and institutions in online platforms.
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